The Covid-19 lockdowns caused people worldwide to be confined to their homes for longer and on a greater scale than ever before. This forced many unprecedented changes to the way we treat domestic space – as relationships shifted between the public and the private worlds, and homes were rapidly adapted to accommodate the additional roles of schools, offices, gyms, restaurants, making-spaces a…
Onze architectes connus et reconnus ont accepté, visiblement avec plaisir, de jouer le jeu de la confidence. Chacun y exprime ce qu'il ressent de sa vie, de son travail, de son parcours. Nous découvrons ainsi que le métier d'architecte est pluriel: des spécialisations qui s'élaborent et se revendiquent (le logement social, les écoles, les équipements sportifs, etc.), au sein d'une agence…
Welchen Bedingungen unterliegen menschliche Lebenswirklichkeiten in gesellschaftlich hervorgebrachten Räumen? Dieser Frage nähert sich Dietrich Erben vom Begriff der Humanität aus und ist damit den sozialen Handlungen, der sinnlichen Wahrnehmung und den imaginierten Bedeutungszuschreibungen in der gebauten Umwelt auf der Spur. Für ein neues Verständnis der gebauten Umwelt integriert er Met…
Public and private, traffic and open space, planned and spontaneous – our idea of a city is characterised by opposites. However, the contributors to this bilingual book show that these poles can also be consciously connected. The urban building blocks from São Paolo present surprisingly idiosyncratic city scenes: People dancing along the motorway, strolling through the stone archipelago, spl…
How were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's fascination with perspective, Team Te…
This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan. Religious architecture gave faithful expression to the complexity of the Roman East and t…
An acclaimed history of Harlem's journey from urban crisis to urban renaissance With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today's Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. Brian Goldstein traces Harlem's Second Renaissance to a surprising source: the radical social movements of the 1960s that resisted city officials and fought to g…
Barcelona confinada dentro de sus límites administrativos puede quedar ahogada por la carencia de territorio y recursos para seguir creciendo. Agotado el territorio en el que expandirse, las ciudades modernas miran hacia su espacio interior, como único ámbito posible donde orientar su necesaria modernización. Barcelona está obligada a hacerlo si no quiere quedar atrás.¿Deberíamos declar…
Il territorio è il «bene comune» per eccellenza. Formato da città – piccole, medie e grandi – borghi e paesi, sistemi agroforestali e ambientali, infrastrutture urbane e rurali, costituisce un vero e proprio essere vivente, i cui geni, personalità e bellezza, sono frutto di processi coevolutivi fra insediamento umano e ambiente sedimentati nel corso …
Mai come adesso l'architettura è di moda. Nelle riviste, nei quotidiani, in televisione le opere delle superstar dell'architettura sono oggetto della curiosità di lettori che prima erano completamente digiuni in materia. Eppure mai come adesso l'architettura è lontana dall'interesse pubblico: incide poco e male sul miglioramento della vita della gente. A volte ne peggiora le condizioni dell'…